Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45362, Stephen Eckert, [BLANK]

SERVICE
Eckert, Stephen
NUMBER
S. 45362
CONTENTS

19.917
New York
Stephen Ecker
of Ulster Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Belknap of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Dubois in the New York line, for the term of one year, from May 1778 to 13 June 1779
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month commence on the 29 th day of January 1828.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of April 1828 and sent to James H. Mitchell Esq. Shawangunk N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of March 1828 $ 9.80 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 20 Sep: 1828 48. --
$ 57.80
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.

20609

State of New York Ulster County ss: On the 13 th day of June A.D. 1827 personally appeared in open Court to wit in the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County in the State of New York being a Court of Record which Proceeds according to the course of the Common law with an unlimited Jurisdiction in point of amount and which Court keeps a Record of its proceedings Stephen Eckert aged eighty five years and about eight months residing in the town of Sholam-yunk in the County of Ulster and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law on his oath makes the following Declaration in order to obtain the Pensions made by the acts of Congress of the eighth March 1818. and of the first of May 1822. to wit. I the said Stephen Eckert do declare and depose that my age and residence is above Correctly stated that some time in the month of May in the year 1776. at the town of Newpaltz in the County aforesaid I the said Stephen Eckert enlisted a private soldier in the Company Commanded by Captain Isaac Delknap in the Regiment Commanded by Col. King Dubois in the New York line of Continental Rangers in the war of the Revolution for the term of during the war and that I the said Stephen Eckert continued to serve as a Common soldier in the said Corps until near about the 13 th day of June 1783. at which time I was discharged from the service in the town of Newburgh then Ulster but now Orange County and that all the soldiers in said Company Commanded by the said Isaac Delknap were discharged at the same time that shortly after I the said Stephen Eckert enlisted and served in the said Company Commanded by the said Isaac Delknap in Fishkill in the County of Dutchess until about three months previous to my discharge when the said Company was removed to Newburgh aforesaid at which place I continued to serve as a private soldier until I was discharged as above stated that I at the time of my discharge received a written discharge which I am now unable to find the same being lost or destroyed that my name is not on the roll of any state except New York and that I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a

person except the present and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension because I. Several years ago made application to one Beverly Wain an attorney at law to procure my pension as I have been informed never taken proper steps to procure the same but was neglected to give me the necessary information on which means to procure the same And that I have not since the 15 day of March 1813, at which time I was a resident of the United States and that I have not since that time by gift loan or any other disposition of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to discriminate as to being entitled to the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18 day of March 1818 And that I do not now have any pension in trust nor any property or securities (contracts) or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herewith annexed and by me subscribed that since the 18 day of March 1813, the following changes have been made in my property I have sold the Cow since that time and no other material changes in my property to the best of my knowledge
Schedule
I now reside with my son John Ebert in a house standing on the land of John C. Broadhead and Richard C. Broadhead in Shawangunk Township of which house my said son John is a mere tenant at will that my wife is dead and that I have no family under my care but live with my said son John who is poor that I have no real estate either in law or equity in possession reversion remainder or in expectancy that I own one Cow worth $20. for the use of my said son John Ebert's family two Coats two Shirts two vests three blankets the said last mentioned articles in all worth not more than $12. & no other personal property except some little other articles of wearing apparel not

according to the value of $3. Sworn to and declared the 13 day of June 1827 before me an open Court Jno. Dubois Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County
Stephen E. Kent
It appears to the satisfaction of this Court that the said Stephen E. Kent did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of thirteen months under an engagement in the Continental establishment it also further appears satisfactory to the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty five dollars - Jno. Dubois Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Ulster -
State of New York Ulster County ss. I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County Do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly Copies from the records of the said Court and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty five dollars - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty third day of June 1827. Jacob Snyder Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County

45362 Rev INVALID.  (cur)
File No. 45362
Stephen Ecker Pai Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index: —Vol. 3, Page 147
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Recd 10 Apr 1828
6 H. April
Claims of Abraham Sparks & Stephen Schert N York 18 March 1818.
James N. Mitchell Esq. At Shawangunk. NY
Probo Secretary of War Warburg for City
James N. Mitchell Esq. Shawangunk Co. NY

Concord, N.H.
Enclosed find you an application for a pension for Abraham Sparks. Also one for Stephen Eckert. They are both of them Old and Quite unable to provide themselves with comfortable necessaries for a living. You will please to examine the Application and evidence and direct your Answer. to me. Respectfully I am Yours &c.
Shawangunk N.Y. 6 th April 1898.
Alma M. Mitchell
Alma Barham. Concord, N.H.

State of New York
Ulster County
ss. Sarah Schoonmaker of the town of Shawangunk in the County of Ulster and State of New York being first duly sworn doth depose and say that she was seventy four years of age in the month of May last past that she is well and personally acquainted with Stephen Eckert of the town of Shawangunk aforesaid and has been acquainted with him for about fifty one years, that the said Stephen Eckert enlisted for the term of during the war sometime in the spring of 1876 in the town of New Paltz in the County of Ulster and State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Isaac Belknap in the regiment commanded by Col Lewis, Survis, in the New York Line of Continental Rangers, that the said Company came to the town of Fishkill in the County of Dutchess in or about the month of October 1876 where this deponent then resided and the said Company laid there from that time until some time in the spring following, that from the time when the said Company came to Fishkill until their departure the deponent from that place this deponent frequently saw the said Stephen who was enlisted in the said Company, and that she did not reside more than a quarter of a mile from the place where the said Company lay that the said Company removed some time in the spring of 1877 from Fishkill to Newburgh, that some time after the said Company removed from Fishkill to Newburgh the soldiers were all discharged. that the said Stephen served to the knowledge of this deponent in the said Company under the enlistment and in the Company of the said Isaac Belknap at one time nine months and better and that he was discharged when the rest of the soldiers were discharged belonging to the said Company. That her late husband now deceased was the first lieutenant in the said Company commanded by the said Captain Belknap and that she understood from her said

husband that the said Stephen Eckert served as a good & faithful soldier in the said Company from the time of his enlistment therein until he was honorably discharged as aforesaid - and that the said Stephen Eckert is now a very old and poor man and further will not
Sarah Schoonmaker
Subscribed & sworn to the 28th day of January A.D. 1828 before me
Willett Linderman a commissioner to take affidavits etc. in and for the County of Ulster
State of New York
Ulster County
vs. I Willett Linderman a commissioner to take the proof and acknowledgments of deeds, mortgages and affidavits do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Sarah Schoonmaker the before named deponent and that she is a respectable person and a credible witness.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this twenty fifth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
Willett Linderman Comr. In
State of New York Ulster County
vs. I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County Do hereby certify that Willett Linderman Esq. was at the time of taking the foregoing affidavit a Commissioner in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn as such officer and by the laws of said State authorized to take affidavits etc. and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Commissioner and rightly believe the signature to the Certificate of said affidavit to be the proper hand writing of the said Willett Linderman
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court and County this 29 day of January A.D. 1828.
Jacob Snyder

State of New York Ulster County 7 p: Robert Hall of the town of South Port in the County of Tioga and State of New York being first duly sworn doth depose and say that he was sixty eight years of age on the twenty fifth day of October last past, that he is well and personally acquainted with Stephen Eckert of the town of Shawangunk in the County of Ulster and State aforesaid that he became acquainted with the said Stephen about fifty one years ago, that the said Stephen Eckert enlisted for the term of during the war in the month of May 1776 at the town of New Paltz in the County of Ulster and State of New York in the company commanded by Captain Isaac Belknap in the Regiment commanded by Col. Lewis Dubois in the New York line of Continental Rangers, that the said Stephen Eckert continued to serve as a good and faithful soldier in the said Corps until on or about the 13 th day of June 1777 when he was honorably discharged from the said service in the town of Newburgh, then in the County of Ulster aforesaid but now Orange County and that all the soldiers in the said company commanded by the said Isaac Belknap were discharged at the same time, for what reason this deponent cannot tell neither did he ever hear any reason given by the officers or any other person why they were discharged. that this deponent also enlisted for the term of during the war at the same time when the said Stephen enlisted, under the said Isaac Belknap in the company commanded by the said Isaac Belknap and that he this deponent served in the said company with the said Stephen for the term aforesaid and was discharged with the other soldiers in the said company commanded

by the said Isaac Belknap as above mentioned. that the said Stephen Pickett since the time of his discharge from the service as aforesaid has resided and still resides in the town of Shawangunk in the County of Ulster aforesaid, that the said Company commanded by the said Isaac Belknap shortly after this deponent and the said Stephen enlisted removed from the place of enlistment to Fish Kill in the County of Dutchess and State of New York and laid there until about three months previous to the time of their discharge and that during the said last three months the said Company lay at New Windsor and Newburgh at which last place the soldiers of said Company were discharged as aforesaid and further said not
Robert Hays
State of New York Ulster County
20609 I Willett Sinderman a Commissioner to take the proof and acknowledgments of Deeds, Mortgages, Affidavits to be read in the Supreme Court or elsewhere do certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Robert Hays the before named Deponent and that he is a credible witness
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of October 1827
State of New York Ulster County
Willett Sinderman Com. Sc
I Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster and Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of Ulster County do hereby Certify that Willett Sinderman Esquire was at the time of taking the foregoing affidavit a Commissioner in and for said County duly Commissioned & sworn as such officer and by the laws of said State authorized to take affidavits &c. and fur- ther that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and truly believe the signature to the Certificate of said affidavit to be the proper hand writing of the said Willett Sinderman
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court and County this 29 th day of January 1828. — Jacob Snyder